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Designer: Room design by Davidson London

A lavish drinks cabinet solution, the Collins combines the style and function of the cocktail cabinet with elegant wine storage. The design brief was to create an elegant home bar for the clients to entertain their guests. The pandemic has led to a shift towards entertaining at home and so the clients wanted to create a space that could rival even the finest speakeasy in London. On a practical level, the cabinet and cellar needed intelligent storage for bottles, glassware and mixology equipment.

The design incorporated elegant, lined drawers for small equipment, deep rubber lined drawers to conceal spirit storage and in the wings, intelligent temperature-controlled wine coolers by Gaggenau. The cabinet and cellar also needed to allow the space to look appropriate during the morning and afternoon, the design incorporated front doors which fully conceal the bar, creating the illusion of a beautiful cabinet only. When the evening draws closer, the pocket doors can be stowed away to reveal a stunning bar with backlit onyx and a black marble worktop.

Davidson London adore the clever use of mechanisms in the storage. The pocket doors allow the most beautiful elements of the space, the back bar and worktop, to be revealed, while the deep drawers allow the spirit bottles to be concealed. The Collins has a sense of harmony about it, it’s the perfect marriage of classic form and superlative materials. The backlit onyx, together with the elegant, brushed brass detailing, introduces a softer, more romantic element to the design. This is juxtaposed against the luxurious black marble worktop and dapper black sycamore veneer which creates a strong silhouette.

The Collins Cabinet and Cellar look quite in keeping with this period country home. While the black sycamore veneer works well with the panelled walls and low-level seating in mohair velvet, the contrasting horizontal bands of sycamore pearl and brushed brass add a contemporary edge to the room, mirroring the personality of the home and the family who lives there.